Yesteryear Public Health Inspectors in the City of Kandy

I have over 3000 blog pieces here on various topic.

I scanned almost all of them to retrieve a piece in Quality of Information.

Then I relalised that I have not made a note on our Public Health Inspectors.

It was a daring omission.

They did a very good job 70 years ago.

We did not fear eating any food outside except only one joint where they did make open air Wade Frying.

We had only one Public Health Inspector in the University of Peradeniya and he did a very good job. He was father of one of my classmates.

When I moved to Colombo in the 1970s I used go to Colombo Medical Faculty Library for my reference work and BMJ journals.

The Medical Faculty canteen was putrid and never I had a cup of tea there. I used to tease one of my older friends (medical graduate) and he used to have a cup of tea in the canteen. Almost everybody in his family was down with infectious hepatitis during my very short stay in Colombo.

I must tell you when I did my internship in Ratnapura, everybody except me was down with hepatitis. I had a electric kettle and I prepared my cup of tea and had boiled cool water to drink.

Why I am writing this.

I hear a PHI was killed by the underworld somewhere in Ceylon.

I am away from Ceylon and people do not kill wild elephants (monkeys are considered a proble in Ceylon).

When the NPP cannot solve economic problems they harp on not so relevant issues.

It is better to accept we are not a Kitchen Cabinet but a Kindergarten Cabinet. 

Help the people (PHI) who try to do an honest job.

Bottled water in not the solution.

Take some boiled cool water in a glass bottle which can be cleaned properly. 

Or like me do not drink water when away from home.

With economic hardships hitting the average citizen, I think one should take care of oneself instead of shifting the blame to a fellow passenger in life.

I preferred alcohol as a beverage, even the it dehydrates me.

Gin and tonic was my combination, if I find a partner for billiards.

It is Rs.2500/= for half an hour.

I have seen guys filling up tined plastic bottles from taps in Negamboo, one of the dirtiest provincial cities in Ceylon.

Enteropathogenic Ecoli is a perennial issue in Ceylon.

Even Macdonald in USA has not solved this problem.